Topic 4 – 





PREVENTION - What is Drug Free Australia doing to promote Demand Reduction?



In Australia are part of a Taskforce for Drug Prevention comprising five dedicated prevention focused organisations. Watch this space for more news on the work of these dedicated agencies in terms of protecting families and communities against drug use harms. We also reguarlarly lobby politicians so that they can see the benefits of prevention. This includes huge health savings in terms of lives, preventable illness and tax dollars.



2. Presenting at key Community Conferences on      Drugs and Mental Health issues



DRUG FREE AUSTRALIA presented a Poster at the Addiction Conference on the Gold Coast at the end of April. Our poster session will showcase just how important the YOUTH influence can be and how to get involved.



Many valuable links were established with the hope of expanding RAG AP to New Zealand and some Pacific island locations.

Two of the highlights were contacts made with the FASD team and the fact that ‘lived experience’ is gaining support to reduce stigamisation for those who have important personal experiences to share in the arena of drug use and preventive measures.



Pictured above are presenters: Gary Christian, President-Elect of Drug Free Australia and Jo Baxter, Executive Director and Rotary Action Group for Addiction Prevention International Board member.



For more information please email: [email protected].



DRUG FREE AUSTRALIA will also showcase the Rotary program at the Rotary International Conference in Singapore at the end of May. For more on the projects in the poster, go to the Rotary Action Group for Addiction Prevention website at: Homepage | Rag AP (rag-ap.org)











Topic 5 – 







ALERTING POLITICIANS TO DRUG HARMS AND SOLUTIONS - especially liberalising cannabis use in the US!





DRUG FREE AUSTRALIA sends regular Alerts to politicians and communicates via correspondence and submissions to inquiries. The list of topics is enormous and many relate :

• Vaping and its impact on youth

• Issues with pill testing at music festivals

• Driving under the influence of cannabis

• the health impacts of so-called ‘medicinal marijuana’ and in particular, notifications of the latest research being done by our comprehensive group of medical researchers and specialists.

• The Recent Biden Softening Legislation on Marijuana - what a huge mistake and poltically motivated!

Important Commentary on Biden’s soft drug stance from the US by Roger Morgan or Politicians in Australia - it could save the lives of our youth…



Understanding the problem is key to solving it. National Drug Policy has been based entirely on the idiotic "Harm Reduction" model since Obama became President. The author of the concept, and founder of the Drug Policy Alliance to carry it out, is George Soros. Soros invented the concept in 1993 based on the self-serving premise that the War On Drugs was causing more harm than drugs themselves. Based on information from Geraldine Casey in Australia, the Drug Policy Alliance decided to initiate the concept in Western Australia so they would have an example of an English speaking country to point to enroute to implementing the concept in the U.S. The results in Western Australia, and for Geraldine's family personally, were catastrophic, as they have been in the U.S. Just a few points I wish to share:



1) The War On Drugs didn't fail when Reagan was in office and drug use was reduced 64%.



2) Soros's version of failure of the War On Drugs is because people in inner cities, primarily black communities, suffered because they were arrested disproportionately for criminal activity. The numbers keep changing a bit, but in 2019 blacks comprised 12.2% of the population and committed 26.6% of crimes. Soros' solution is to just define addiction as a health problem, not a criminal problem, and to either relax or eliminate laws which define criminal activity. Brilliant! You have a choice whether to believe he is mentally incompetent, or his intentions were and are evil.



3) For 15 years, since Obama became President, "Harm Reduction" has been drug policy. No attempt to educate, prevent or reduce drug use. The policy is to allow possession and use of marijuana (and all drugs in Oregon) as a civil right, then provide treatment for the victims and not prosecutive crime. Soros has gone so far as to spend $40 million plus to get DA's elected that simply won't prosecute crime.

Trump could have and should have stopped it, but did not. So now, 15 years later, marijuana use has escalated from abut 15 to 55 million (past year), the potency of the drug has escalated from about 5 or 6% to as high as 99% in some forms, and the expanded market opened up a vast new opportunities for other drugs which have led to over 300 daily overdose deaths. And overdose isn't the only cause of death, or the only adverse outcome. When last measured in 1996 it was only 27% of the total, a figure that probably holds true today. In addition we have a crisis of addiction, mental illness suicides, traffic fatalities, myriad health problems from marijuana, an invasion of foreign cartels, et al.



In searching online for the implications of rescheduling marijuana, an article in VICENTE. quoted President Biden as saying he initiated the process to "......right the wrongs of the failed war on drugs."  The War on Drugs didn't fail. He did, and his colleagues in Congress. They have betrayed their oath of office, and should all be held accountable for corruption.



The Press Conference in Washington D.C. is scheduled for Monday, May 20. Ron Brooks has offered to invite participation from all of the law enforcement organizations his firm represents. I am hoping for the same from the Veteran organizations, who should be outraged after so may have given so much to keep this nation safe. Robert Charles, Dave Evans, Dr. Bertha Madras, Dr. Paula Gordon have offered to join me so far, and a few other notables are invited.



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